About - Global Campaign against Headache
About the Global Campaign against Headache
About the Global Campaign against Headache
- The mission of the Global Campaign is to reduce the burden of headache worldwide, achieving this by working with local policy-makers and principal stakeholders to plan and implement healthcare services for headache, ensuring these are appropriate to local systems, resources and needs. -
The Global Campaign against Headache is a worldwide partnership. First and foremost, it is a collaboration between the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UK-registered non-governmental organisation Lifting The Burden, which is in Official Relations with WHO. It is also a partnership with other international non-governmental organisations, academic institutions and many individuals around the world.
The Department of Neuroscience at NTNU is Lifting The Burden's principal academic partner, and the academic base of the Global Campaign, undertaking, directing or overseeing many of its projects and initiatives.
The Global Campaign's purpose, pursued through these partnerships, is to bring better healthcare to people with headache, thereby reducing the burden of headache worldwide.
Objectives:
- To know the size and nature of the headache problem in all regions of the world ("knowledge for action"). This will be achieved in two steps: bringing together all of the published worldwide evidence of the burden attributable to headache, and setting up new studies where the evidence is lacking or of poor quality. The Campaign will use this knowledge, to achieve its second objective;
- To persuade governments and other health-service policy-makers, healthcare providers, people directly affected by headache and the general population that headache must have higher healthcare priority ("awareness for action");
- The third objective, and the ultimate purpose of the Global Campaign, is to work with local policy-makers and principal stakeholders to plan and implement healthcare services for headache, ensuring these are appropriate to local systems, resources and needs ("action for beneficial change"). Within these services, better care will be fostered through education.